Longest shift you've worked?
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Murf, Insomnia_Calls, Outovsyt and I did 20 hours together 
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thats just crazy lol. longest ive worked is a 7am-11pm so....16 hours.
SideWinder said:Just got home from a 16 hour shift at Tesco.Admittedly it was overtime added on to my usual hours - 7am until 4pm with the overtime being 4pm until 11pm. This is working in the 'Dairy' section by the way.
So, what's the longest shift you've worked? Why did you do it? Where do you work? And most importantly, was it fun?
My feet ache.
Aah, my mate works at Tesco in Bristol and he's been working uber long hours aswell. Longest I've worked is 14 hours in IKEA, did it when I was actually allowed to do it. Now they won't let you work over 39 hours a week which is a real bummer
. Most I worked in a week was 72 hours, 2 summers ago. It was bleedin tiring, specially cos of the safety boots. Worked in the marketplace so there was a lot of running around.
[TW]Fox said:
I thought that, say a 9am shift until 12am would onlybe 15hours, then add 9 hours, 9am... maybe another 15 hours shift? 39hours, so maybe exclude lunch break (I dunno, two half hours)?
Longest I worked, I dunno, would have been when I worked for UniChem when I was ~16. Some looooooooooong days and nights over Summer. Worth it though.
76 hours non-stop recovering and transporting the refugees from Clark Air Force Base when Mt. Pinatubo blew in 1991.
Our battle group moved all military personel and thier families, all civilian contractors and thier families, and all civilian employess and thier families from Subic Bay to Cebu by ship.
So we were either loading people and whatever belongings they were carrying, trying to make them comfortable and let them get a rest, offloading them at Cebu, or cleaning the ship up for the next lot. Rinse and repeat. For a little over three days.
Oh, and my ship was the one designated to people we were moving that had pets as we were the only ones to have a covered fantail.
Our battle group moved all military personel and thier families, all civilian contractors and thier families, and all civilian employess and thier families from Subic Bay to Cebu by ship.
So we were either loading people and whatever belongings they were carrying, trying to make them comfortable and let them get a rest, offloading them at Cebu, or cleaning the ship up for the next lot. Rinse and repeat. For a little over three days.
Oh, and my ship was the one designated to people we were moving that had pets as we were the only ones to have a covered fantail.
Gilly said:My whopper is always top notch
The operating hours of most BK restaurants is around 6am to 2am.
Thats opening at 8:30 and closing at 11pm
I tried my best for you mate
Failed miserably, but hey, got your 38hours worked out Albeit wrong.Mickey_D said:
Wow, impressive work there Mickey. Out of interest, what is a covered fantail? Save me scouring google and articles on birds.
The fantail is the rearmost deck open to the air on a ship.
Ours was covered because the Engineering Department berthing was above it, and the roof of the berthing was our helicopter flight deck.
If you look at the image on this page you can see at the back under the flight deck there is a dark area. There's an open deck back there that housed the towing capstan, the aft 2 .50 cal mounts, 2 each side mooring bollards, and the aft lookout's station.
Because it was covered and had the high gunwales, it was perfect for keeping all the pets on as it was easily washable, was at the back of the ship, so feces smell wouldn't get into the berthing areas, and it was covered so the pets were out of the hot sun as well.
Ours was covered because the Engineering Department berthing was above it, and the roof of the berthing was our helicopter flight deck.
If you look at the image on this page you can see at the back under the flight deck there is a dark area. There's an open deck back there that housed the towing capstan, the aft 2 .50 cal mounts, 2 each side mooring bollards, and the aft lookout's station.
Because it was covered and had the high gunwales, it was perfect for keeping all the pets on as it was easily washable, was at the back of the ship, so feces smell wouldn't get into the berthing areas, and it was covered so the pets were out of the hot sun as well.
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Mickey_D said:
Fine! Ok then!
You win
Kell_ee001 said:Fine! Ok then!
You win
Hell, there were many a time on a "westpac" (Western Pacific 6 month overseas tour) that we would do 24 hours non-stop refueling for the battle group. We'd get about 15 minutes between ships where we could make a mad dash to go pee and get something to eat, then it was right back up on station handling lines for fuel and supplies transfer (or in my case manning the bridge-to-bridge communications).
Any time at all that you think you've got it bad, give a silent prayer for our servicemembers. They've seen, done, and had done to them things most of us can't even begin to comprehend. And 99.99999% of those things would get ANY company closed for illegal business practices and maltreatment of personel.
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